CATALOGUE OF I'F.NN. COLLKGE. 25-5 



Your attention is directed, in the first place, to the position which 

 you occupy. You are members of Pennsylvania College. You have 

 passed through the probation required by the Students of that institution, 

 and have solemn vows upon you. Your truth and honor have been 

 pledged before God and man, that the salutary and mild regulations en- 

 acted by the authorities of the institution for the good of its sons, and 

 consequently for your good, shall be sacredly observed by you during 

 your continuance in it. If you analyze the formula which you have 

 pronounced and which lias so powerful an obligatory force upon you, 

 you wmII discover that it is neither oppressive in itself, nor arbitrary. 

 Jt embraces, first, " respect to be paid to your instructors and others." 

 It surely cannot be regarded as unreasonable to require of you this. If 

 there are any human beings in the woild, who, next to your parents, de- 

 serve not only to be respected, but honored by you, it is they who are 

 exercising the laborious and self-denying office of Professors in our lit- 

 erary institutions, and particularly such as are not endowed. They 

 merit it for their education and learning, they deserve it for that tried 

 worth which has secured them their responsible posts. They deserve 

 it on account of their patient toil in your behalf, their numerous and 

 anxious consultations for your good, and the fervent addresses which, 

 both in public and private, they make at a Throne of Grace for your 

 spiritual good. For the time being, they are in loco parentum, and they 

 watch over you with affectionate interest, and seek God's aid that, when 

 the destroyer cometh, "he may find nothing in you," 



This relation between the student and his teacher should be well 

 understood. Well should the former be acquainted with it, that he may 

 not put himself into an unnatural position, and be led with a parricidal 

 criminality to smite the arm which is stretched out for his support. If 

 it should happen, as it may, that the Professor is unworthy the respect 

 that is claimed for him, it is a great evil, but one which will find a rem- 

 edy in the power which has appointed him. Having commenced our 

 journey together, we will now put up for the present, with the hope of 

 speedily renewing it. Till we meet again, we commend you to God. 



Yours truly. 



CATALOGUE OF PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE FOR 1S46. 



This publication is now lying on our table, from which we leam 

 that one hundred and ninety-three students have been connected with the- 

 Institulion during the current year, an increase of ybri?/^t;e over last 

 year, and the largest number tliat has been reported since the organiza- 



